This gift of bees is very popular with folk healers - based on propolis and now they are doing gargles for the sore throat and creams for the affected skin. Thanks to the healing power of propolis, it can be used in home cosmetology, including hair treatment.
The greater part of this substance is scented resin. In addition, propolis contains amino acids, vitamins, microelements, even fats and enzymes. Scientists say that in this modest dark brown substance "stored" more than 280 valuable substances, and they are all important for human health. So why not visit the exhibition of beekeepers and not buy a bit of propolis in the home medicine chest?
This substance has antimicrobial properties, which are very like the scalp, because the propolis disappears already available in the "anamnesis" dandruff. Propolis strengthens bulbs of hair, updates them after "oblondinivaniya", staining, unnecessarily sunny vacation. After such withdrawal, the mane becomes soft, shiny, elastic.
You can use it both in its pure form (adding to hair masks), and making tincture.
Important! If you are allergic to honey and other gifts of bees, propolis will not suit you. About this allergy, you just can not know, so before the first use of home cosmetics with propolis make a small allergic trial.
Propolis lotion. If you have fatty hair, and you want the strands to become lighter and not so quickly contaminated, every day soak the fleece in the tincture and treat it with hair roots. Course: 2 months. But rub the tincture needs 4 weeks daily, then 2 weeks of hair rest, then another 2 weeks of procedure must be returned.
Rinsing hair with propolis. Such care will suit damaged (overdried, breaking) hair. In 0.5 liters of water, pour 2 teaspoons of tincture. After washing your head, rinse still wet hair with this solution. Course: month (you need to wash your head the way you are used to).
Propolis with medicinal herbs. Mix the teaspoon of marigold, the same amount of chamomile and nettle. Pour a glass of boiling water. Let it stand for 30 minutes, then add to the broth 0.5 teaspoon of honey and tincture of propolis (also half a spoon). Pour plain water to get about a liter. Rinse hair after washing.
We add tincture to cosmetics. In your usual shampoo, mask, balm, drip for 10-15 droplets of tincture.
Slice some propolis. Mix with alcohol (proportion 1 to 4-m). Hide the bottle with the future tincture in a dark locker, keep it in confinement for 10 days. Then strain the alcohol through a bandage or gauze. Tincture is ready! Keep it in the refrigerator.
Nourishing mask with yolk for any hair
Recipe: 1 teaspoon of honey (liquid, but thick), 1 tablespoon of castor oil, egg yolk, tea spoon of propolis tincture.
How to use: Mix the mask, apply on all hair, starting near the scalp. Heat the head (standard procedure: cellophane or thin shower cap and soft towel). Wash off after two hours with shampoo.
Burdock mask with propolis against dandruff
Recipe: mix 3 tablespoons burdock oil and 1 spoon of tincture.
How to use: apply to the entire mane, warm it the way it was written in the previous recipe. Keep on your hair for 40-50 minutes. Wash thoroughly under a tap.
Mask with propolis and aloe from hair loss
Recipe: 1 teaspoon of aloe juice and propolis tincture, a tablespoon of onion juice, yolk.
How to use: keep on the hair for about 60 minutes, then wash your hair.
Mask with propolis and honey
The recipe: Take a tincture of propolis, natural honey, royal jelly in equal proportions and apply on the head for an hour.
What is its use: propolis in combination with other products of beekeeping enhances its medicinal properties. The mask nourishes every hair, straightens disobedient hair, gives hair volume, fights with aging hair at the roots. Often applying it, you will grow your braid faster.
Mask with propolis and vitamins
Recipe: mix a little juice of aloe, 4 ml of riboflavin (it's vitamin B2 from a pharmacy ampoule), as much nicotinic acid (also from an ampoule), a tablespoon of propolis tincture.
How to use: Apply to hair for 2 weeks, every other day.
What is the use: acceleration of hair growth, strengthening of the roots, as well as improving the scalp.